Running head: COMPARISON LANGUAGE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Abstract
For the purposes of revealing and comparing the social, cultural, and motivational
differences between American and Chinese undergraduate students learning foreign
language, a sample of 100 students at University of Wyoming was asked to fill out a
Foreign Language Learning Motivation and Beliefs questionnaire and 61 respondents
completed the surveys. The results revealed that American students commonly
believed that foreign language learning can help break cultural biases, and Chinese
students generally reported that learning foreign languages is an essential skill to
survive the present day competitive society. The implications of these findings are
discussed.